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Revised ruling and interface

Plan: plans/dolos-archive-compression-parallel-import.md, decision 0040 relay.
The founder explicitly revised the original offline-only restriction:
"We're optimizing eligible batches, not reserving resources."

This revision removes the five branched method pairs, writer intent, offline
lifecycle variant and adapter forwarding. Core/Cardano lifecycle interfaces,
archive CLI, snapshot restore/backfill and storage adapters now match the
merged baseline. All callers use the original entry points.

Flatfiles automatically selects bounded parallel encoding for multi-body
windows containing at least 256 KiB. Tiny/single-body work and one-worker
hosts stay serial. Rayon callers stay serial and cooperate while waiting for
the physical writer lock, avoiding nested encoding and worker starvation.
No operator setting or global mode switch is introduced.

Ordering, independent zstd-3 frames/dictionary, v4, transaction boundaries,
durability, duplicate locations, rollback and retry semantics are preserved.
Every batch rejects oversized bodies before any writes. Tests exercise
batched live sync, import/recovery, actual Mithril and large logical snapshot
restore, bounds, failure injection, concurrency and deterministic ordering.

Measured result and trade-off

Automatic-candidate report
and runbook.
Earlier offline-only evidence remains immutable and is not reused as this
candidate's verdict.

  • Three paired full inherited-corpus runs: 500-block median gate PASS,
    151.5% raw throughput / 134.4% serial-compressed throughput; actual commit p95
    40.567 ms versus raw 44.433 ms (91.3%). Every paired throughput ratio exceeds
    90%; one individual p95 pair exceeds 110%, though the declared median gate passes.
  • Batch 5000 and both single-block era shapes also pass their median thresholds.
  • Material trade-off: supporting concurrent archive tests show 2.06× writer
    throughput at batch 100, but point-read p95 +12.9% and page-read p95 +28.0%.
    Four-worker experimentation did not improve tails. No query-latency or
    resource-isolation guarantee is claimed; QA/founder must review this cost.
  • Measurement limitation: macOS storage-management activity and low free disk
    space made this host window noisy. All samples are retained. These ratios are
    not a clean or portable speedup estimate, nor a full-bootstrap speedup claim.
  • Peak encoded buffers: 4.62 MiB at batch 500; 5.57 MiB at batch 5000.
    Batch-500 CPU is 17.5% above serial and peak RSS is 19.22 MiB higher.

Verification

All four required workspace commands completed with exit 0:

  • cargo clippy --workspace --all-targets --all-features: seven pre-existing
    warnings retained, no new warnings.
  • cargo build --workspace --all-targets --all-features.
  • cargo test --workspace --all-targets: 1,457 passed, 48 ignored.
  • cargo test --workspace --all-features --exclude dolos-minibf --exclude dolos-minikupo --exclude dolos-trp:
    995 passed, 53 ignored.

Final harness/privacy tests pass, including automatic selection in a
two-worker subprocess. A review finding was addressed by moving the public
parallel-ordering integration test outside pool.install and asserting that
the parallel path actually ran; production code is unchanged from the measured
5d13f2da source.

Production snapshot/registry paths now match the merged baseline, so the
conditional Docker registry suites were not rerun. Previous daemon timeouts
remain documented in historical evidence, not converted into passes.

Code-QA → founder review remains required, especially for the concurrent-reader
tail cost and noisy-host limitation. No merge, retirement, deployment, cloud
spend or live-instance mutation is requested or performed.

Summary by CodeRabbit

  • New Features

    • Archive batches now automatically use parallel encoding when suitable, while smaller or constrained batches continue using serial processing.
    • Large snapshot and archive imports benefit from improved throughput while preserving block order and resumability.
    • Oversized blocks are rejected before files are modified, improving failure recovery and retry behavior.
  • Bug Fixes

    • Improved writer coordination prevents stalls during concurrent reads and writes.
  • Documentation

    • Updated archive encoding guidance, resource limits, benchmark procedures, and performance results.

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The PR adds an offline archive import lifecycle. It introduces import-specific writers, parallel bounded flat-file encoding, caller integrations, failure and equivalence tests, and benchmark instrumentation and reports.

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Offline archive import

Layer / File(s) Summary
Lifecycle routing and writer dispatch
crates/core/..., crates/cardano/..., crates/snapshot/..., src/adapters/storage.rs, src/bin/dolos/...
Adds Lifecycle::OfflineImport, import_blocks_offline, commit_archive_import, and start_import_writer. Offline callers use the import path while sync and normal imports retain serial behavior.
Parallel archive storage path
crates/fjall/..., crates/flatfiles/...
Adds import append mode, bounded Rayon encoding, ordered writes, append statistics, and retry-safe failure handling.
Offline caller coverage and archive invariants
crates/snapshot/tests/..., tests/..., crates/testing/...
Tests writer selection, byte and location equivalence, ordering, duplicate imports, rollback, restart, retries, and WAL behavior.
Benchmark codec and instrumentation tooling
xtask/src/archive_bench/..., xtask/tests/..., xtask/archive-bench/...
Adds the store-import codec, synthetic large-body input, commit and buffer metrics, scoped import gates, and smoke-test coverage.
Benchmark evidence and reproducibility
xtask/archive-bench/results/...
Adds benchmark reports, runbooks, corpus metadata, measurement patches, result records, and verification data.

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Estimated code review effort: 5 (Critical) | ~120 minutes

Merge Risk: 🔵 Low · up to efbf0

The implementation is mergeable with a small reporting fix so readers can distinguish the four-worker experiment from default production results.

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sequenceDiagram
  participant ImportCommand
  participant ImportExt
  participant WorkUnit
  participant ArchiveWriter
  participant FlatFileStore
  ImportCommand->>ImportExt: import_blocks_offline
  ImportExt->>WorkUnit: commit_archive_import
  WorkUnit->>ArchiveWriter: start_import_writer
  ArchiveWriter->>FlatFileStore: import_batch
  FlatFileStore->>FlatFileStore: encode windows in parallel
  FlatFileStore-->>ArchiveWriter: ordered locations
  ArchiveWriter-->>WorkUnit: commit result
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@scarmuega scarmuega changed the title feat(archive): parallelize offline encoding with bounded buffers feat(archive): automatically select bounded parallel encoding Sep 9, 2026

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In `@crates/flatfiles/tests/store.rs`:
- Line 565: Update the test around append_batch so it invokes store.append_batch
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Pushed efbf0d7: removed the Python instrumentation helper and documented reproduction directly from the saved measurement patches. Historical evidence and production code are unchanged. All three saved instrumentation patches pass application checks. Build and Clippy exit successfully (existing warnings remain). Both workspace test commands were attempted and exited 101 at the unrelated stelae_restore::a_well_formed_repository_reaches_the_registry test: macOS system-configuration panicked with "Attempted to create a NULL object." No checks remain running.

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Pushed 44e8911 after reviewing all nine Markdown files introduced by this PR. Repository docs now retain implementation specs, benchmark runbooks, measurements/provenance/limitations and recorded verification results. Founder rulings, approval judgments, QA handoffs and merge/retirement instructions moved to plans/dolos-archive-compression-parallel-import.md in the planning repository. Numeric tables, raw evidence, source patches and binary identities are unchanged. All relative links resolve; git diff --check and 21 xtask tests pass. Build and Clippy exit 0 with existing warnings. Both workspace test selections finish with exit 101 at the same unrelated macOS system-configuration NULL-object panic in stelae_restore::a_well_formed_repository_reaches_the_registry. No checks remain running; no hardware runs were repeated.

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🎯 Functional Correctness | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick win

Identify the four-worker experiment in this table.

Rows 86–91 come from concurrent-automatic-4.jsonl with execution_env.RAYON_NUM_THREADS=4, but the table shows the same run and revision as the default rows 80–85. Add the execution environment to the rendered settings or use a distinct label so readers can separate the four-worker results from the default production policy.

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around lines 86 - 91, Update the table-generation flow for the concurrent
automatic benchmark results to include the execution environment, specifically
the four-worker RAYON_NUM_THREADS=4 setting, in the rendered settings or use a
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